Montana's ban on same-sex marriage was struck down Wednesday afternoon by a federal judge who called the ban unconstitutional. U.S.
District Judge Brian Morris did not stay his injunction, which means
state officials could begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex
couples immediately. In 2004, Montana voters passed an amendment to the state Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. In his ruling,
Morris said that amendment violated the Equal Protection Clause in the
14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and barred Montana from
enforcing it.

WHOA! Mark Regnerus made the #Humanum conference videos - First discredited research. Now bad videos. Apparently the Catholic Church has learned NOTHING since that Galileo situation. Something nasty is coming our way and I say bring it on. My hair is wrapped up, I got my tennis shoes on, my face is greased, and I got my windmill fighting technique on point.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson on
Tuesday evening asked Chief Justice John Roberts to stop same-sex
couples from being able to marry in the state beginning Thursday. Wilson is seeking a stay during his appeal of a trial court ruling
from last week that the state’s ban on same-sex couples’ marriages is
unconstitutional.

The application, which Roberts can decide on his own or refer to the
full court for resolution, was filed just hours after the 4th Circuit
Court of Appeals denied a similar request.

The trial court judge put his Nov. 12 ruling
on hold until noon Thursday, Nov. 20, and the state had asked the 4th
Circuit and now the Supreme Court to keep that ruling on hold during its
appeal.

Since the justices turned down five states’ requests on Oct. 6 to
take a marriage case appeal — including a decision from the 4th Circuit
striking down Virginia’s marriage ban — the justices have, on three
occasions, turned down requests to issue stays of lower court rulings
during appeals. This includes one, in Kansas, since the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld four other states’ bans.

Now, however, with requests in
from the plaintiffs in those four states’ cases asking the Supreme
Court to take one or more of the appeals and resolve the question,
Wilson is hoping that he can get a stay issued from the court to stop
the trial court ruling from going into effect Thursday.

For Pete's sake. Wilson can continue to bang his head against a brick wall. However why does he continue to use taxpayer money to do it? He has lost the battle and would be better served to not act like Pickett during the Battle of Gettysburg.

About Me

Alvin McEwen is 46-year-old African-American gay man who resides in Columbia, SC.
McEwen's blog, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters, and writings have been mentioned by Americablog.com, Goodasyou.org, People for the American Way, PageOneQ.com, The Washington Post, Raw Story, The Advocate, Media Matters for America, Crooksandliars.com, Thinkprogress.org, Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish, Melissa Harris-Perry, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Washington Blade, and Foxnews.com.
In addition, he is also a past contributor to Pam's House Blend,Justice For All, LGBTQ Nation, and Alternet.org. He is a present contributor to the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post,
He is the 2007 recipient of the Harriet Daniels Hancock Volunteer of the Year Award and the 2010 recipient of the Order of the Pink Palmetto from the SC Pride Movement as well as the 2009 recipient of the Audre Lorde/James Baldwin Civil Rights Activist Award from SC Black Pride. In addition, he is a three-time nominee of the Ed Madden Media Advocacy Award from SC Pride.